RECORD SIMULATION
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory say they have set a new world record for the first multimillion-atom biological simulation. A molecular model of ribosome, run on the lab’s Q Machine supercomputer, simulated 2.64 million atoms in motion.

NANO GROUP FORMS
The newly launched Accelrys NanoBiology Initiative aims to accelerate the development of modeling and informatics software needed to apply nanotechnology to biology. The initiative will connect scientists and engineers to bridge the gap between the materials and life sciences.

DATABASE DEBUTSKinexus Bioinformatics announced the Internet-accessible, cell signaling proteomics database, KiNET, including more than 200,000 expression-level measurements and phosphorylation states of hundreds of signal transduction proteins from hundreds of biological specimens.